Quotes from Casey Stengel

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

Most people my age are dead.

I had many years that I was not so successful as a ballplayer, as it is a game of skill.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: you can win or you can lose or it can rain.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

In any group, you've got those who love you, those who hate you and those who are undecided. The key to leadership is to keep the ones who hate you away from those who are undecided.

The secret of managing is to keep the folks who hate you away from the ones who haven't made up their minds yet.

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

You can look it up.

If you don't have a catcher, the ball goes to the backstop. Casey Stengel explaining why the Mets selected mediocre catcher Hobie Landrith first in the expansion draft.

Plea to the early 1960's NY Mets. "Can't anyone here play this game?

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

Mister, that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.